Too much staring at computer screens can make you short sighted

Well, to be fair I’m there already, born like it and therefore a regular visitor to the optician who checks up I’ve been a good girl and not overdone it with my eyes. We always have a laugh, my optician and I, as I try to read the letters on the screen and demonstrate my uncanny knack for guessing wrong!  Then we progress to ‘eyes out’, well contact lenses anyway, while he checks the back of my eyes, the roundness of my eyes, the whatever else he checks in my eyes and while having my eyes stared into at very close quarters, we chat.  A welcome opportunity in the...